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Gawain's precise plan was as follows. First, all direct military forces were unified into four cavalry regiments, namely, the "Caesar's Cavalry Regiment" (formerly Anna's Cavalry Regiment), the "New Baptized Cavalry Regiment", "Saint Cyril's Cavalry" (these two are the Red Hand Cavalry), plus the "Ogus Shooting Cavalry" (reduced to 500 men).

The four cavalry regiments, except for the Caesar Cavalry Regiment (the regiment leader was changed to Gotti), are still composed of 300 men (the armored cavalry is too expensive), the remaining three are 500 men each, and the original Red Hand Cavalry is 1,200 men. The Ogus Cavalry Regiment is composed of 900 people, so that the remaining 600 veterans are unified into the "Cavalry Training Team". In the military camps stationed in Kayseri and Tarsus, the training teams actually have two tasks: one is to select suitable preparatory personnel from the second-line echelon such as the border people and the civilian army to learn horsemanship, archery or spear riding skills. The training can make up for the losses in war at any time; secondly, when the frontline military strength is tight, it can play the role of the general reserve force.

In addition, there is an infantry regiment, which is the fire-throwing regiment under the direct jurisdiction of the great patron. It has been reduced from the original 1,800 men to 1,200 men. The remaining 600 men are except for 200 who are left to serve as "throwers". "Pyro training team", the rest of the All the members were demobilized and returned to their sacred farms or workshops—1,200 fire-throwers, equipped with sixty fire tubes, two hundred handguns and rockets, eighty light artillery carts, twelve five-barrel cannons, Six flying fire copper clams and twelve rocket barrels.

As for the Royal Guards, there were nominally three hundred people, but Gawain only left one hundred and twenty to take charge of the palace defense. The remaining veterans were all promoted to flag officer centurions and integrated into the frontline brigades.

As for the three-wing brigade, Gao Wen also made significant reductions on the surface, unifying the infantry quota to 3,000 people and dividing it into five Banda detachments. At the same time, he promoted the original Armenian logistics troops of each brigade to formal soldiers. , compiled into three hundred people A brigade of cavalry, a brigade of three hundred, a brigade of fire throwers, a brigade of three hundred archers, and a brigade of three hundred engineers, of which the shortage of Armenians was unified from Sisi County and Fanka Frontier Area is recruiting again. In this way, the infantry array in the brigade was reduced, but the auxiliary military strength was increased. In terms of weapons, Gao Wen uniformly stipulated that the infantry detachment of any brigade adopts a "miscellaneous" model, eight of which become battle infantry and are used uniformly. The large infantry fought with spears, and the remaining two became a mixture of sword and shield bearers, axe-hands, and small sickle-bearers.

In this case, the composition of a regular "Tarthus Guards Brigade" is as follows: five Banda infantry detachments, each with a full strength of 600 men, including 480 large infantry spearmen, one One hundred and twenty mixed soldiers; the command system of each detachment was restored to the ancient system by name, with a detachment captain (count) as general manager, and then according to a company of 60 people, a flag officer, the company captain, who was also a "senior Centurion" general manager, at the same time set up four " As the deputy, once the former is killed or wounded, the centurion of the same rank will take over the command of the company. On weekdays, the senior centurion can serve as the brigade staff officer and participate in the military affairs of the brigade general together with the earl. meeting, while flat The rank centurion is responsible for the training task - the company is divided into six flag teams, each flag team has ten soldiers, one of whom is the flag bearer, the so-called "senior sergeant", and there is also a "senior sergeant" "Double-paid sergeant" served as substitute.

In this way, it is equivalent to a company, with a total of five centurion officers and twelve junior sergeants to supervise and monitor the entire company. This allows the soldiers to continue fighting desperately despite the high casualty rate without losing the commander. Instant collapse.

Later, various captains were set up to command the auxiliary teams, such as archer captains, fire thrower captains, and cavalry captains. They were directly commanded and dispatched by the brigade generals, and most of them were promoted from the ranks of senior veterans who specialized in this arm. The company and flag corps will be set up as usual.

The basic combat mode of the army has also been formulated by Gawain:

The infantry detachment is the basic tactical unit. At this point, Gawain resurrected the "infantry brigade tactics" of the ancient Roman period. There are four basic combat arrays. One is the column advance and assault technique. The whole detachment is 480 The famous spearmen are divided into two groups, the left and right, each group is arranged in a line of ten people, a total of two Column mode of fourteen columns, and then the miscellaneous skirmishers are separated on the left and right to take on the task of guarding and guarding, responsible for violent assaults and penetrating the enemy's positions; the second type is the defensive technique of phalanx, which can be transformed from columns, with one troop in each column The company acted as the front, arranged in eight lines, and two companies of miscellaneous skirmishers Divide it into two wings and arrange it next to it, so you can fight with the enemy for a long time; the third type is the basic horizontal formation technique, with two companies of miscellaneous skirmishers serving as vanguard, and the remaining eight companies of spearmen are divided into two lines, so that you can A group offensive and defensive battle with a wide front can also be transformed into a square formation or column; the fourth type is The previous "horn tactic" under Kayseri City was also a kind of defensive technique. A detachment was also divided into two parts, each with five companies, two horizontal teams and three columns mixed with each other, and then cooperated with the brigade. With the blessing of ancillary teams, it is especially suitable for small group conflicts in narrow areas.

During this period of rest, Gao Wen completely strengthened the detachment's drills. He promoted and recruited a large number of grassroots officers at the level of centurions and senior sergeants, and formed a training team to conduct nearly rigorous intensive training. Although the size of the team was reduced, , but the fund payment has increased: Military Code The stipends were also drawn up. Counts, centurions, auxiliary captains, sergeants and soldiers all had different levels. Some were paid with the benefits of the suffrage real estate, some were distributed with spoils of war, and some were paid with cash. The methods were various, but There is only one purpose, to strive to firmly control the team.

Even though the Gimmages Brigade was not in the country, Gao Wen still copied all the military codes, drill codes and beneficiaries and strictly supervised their daily military camps in Beirut and Jubail.

On the basis of the detachment skeleton, the combat mode of the brigade was also formulated: Gawain drew on Raymond's previous combat experience in Gangara (although he was defeated miserably), and asked the brigade general to deeply understand the magic of the word "five", that is, the five infantry detachments were divided into the basic formation of three in front and two in the back, the first three were "regular troops", and the second in the back were "special troops" controlled by the general, "these five bandas can have the first three attack fiercely and the second in the back as substitutes; the first three can attack directly and the second in the back can make a detour; the first three can feint and the second in the back can make a surprise attack; the first three can hold firm and the second in the back can prepare; the first three can retreat and the second in the back can ambush; in this way, a brigade can fight in formation or in the field, and can break through, encircle, raid, hold on, and ambush strategically, with endless changes. Combined with the supreme commander's flexible use of the attached troops, it will be invincible on the plains, rivers, and fortresses!" (To be continued ~^~)